How to effectively allocate system resource to meet the Service Level Agreement (SLA) of Web servers is a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose an improved scheme for aut...
Many governmental agencies and businesses organizations use networked systems to provide a number of services. Such a service-oriented network can be implemented as an overlay on ...
Daniel J. Rosenkrantz, Sanjay Goel, S. S. Ravi, Ja...
Scientists are increasingly using large distributed systems built from commodity off-the-shelf components to perform scientific computation. Grid computing has expanded the scale ...
An important number of studies have addressed the importance of models in software engineering, mainly in the design of robust software systems. Although models have been proven t...
: A distributed system is scalable if the rate at which it completes its computation and communication tasks does not depend on its size. As an example, the scalability of a peer-t...